I don't know about having THAT many...that seems a bit excessive. You should try fixing it with a hammer. Hammers are great tools to repair major wii software issues. If that doesn't work, try a jigsaw.

on topic, to prevent freezing, what is the minimum internet speed to reduce freezing?i used a verizon "high speed" 700 kb/s over the phone line.had over 200 freezes from june to december. plus most were "searching for game" & most of those are black box, even after switching to someone's linksys [it's so often that i can no longer bring myself to go to bb]

I've noticed i get a lot of freezes playing BB, that's probably because of all the explosions going on, when people are blowing up the box.

That could be true, Andrew. However, for the most part, for me, when there is a lot of explosion going, my screen lags a bit, but doesn't give me the beep. Maybe it just comes down to internet connection.

On Topic: The only time I remember Wii disc drives getting broken over a game was when black ops came out.
That and if I remember right first GEN (launch Wiis) had that buzzing noise/disc drive breaking problem the most out of all other Wii models /DuhMuchKinda?

Last night I power cycled my FIOS modem (removed the battery too) and installed a new router. When I connected to the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection the Starting Server..., Authenticating... and Testing Connection... process was about 5 times as fast as it used to be.

Not sure but possibly data is getting hung up if your networking devices haven't been cleaned out in a while with a good power cycle?

I'll chime in again later to report if I see a reduction in crashes and dropped connections. As some have eluded to, I suspect that the wii hardware wasn't designed to take the beating the GE Multiplayer can deliver. As far as I understand the wiil was meant to be more of a motion/physics rendering machine as opposed to intensive graphics rendering.

By the way, why aren't you guys playing on an XBox? At my house the wii was initially meant for the kids/family when we got it so that's the console of choice here. Would like to move to playing on my PC (007 legends) or get an XBox (no money for that right now thought).

Also got a continuous beep and screen freeze today at lunch after a game was over and scores were posted. So looks like this has nothing to do with the quality of the connection.

The "Wii Freeze with a beep" at the scoreboard happens when the host quits as the scoreboard comes up, and is due to the the host machine not sending the "proceed to lobby" packet when needed. I find it happens for one of two reasons:
1) The host was being polite and waiting for the game to end before quitting, but quit before the "lobby" packet could be sent.
2) The host left at that time on purpose, knowing it would screw with people and "wii freeze/beep" them...which also happenz...